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Monday, December 4, 2017

"White Bear"

Lillian Orvald
12/04/17
CMI

"White Bear" Analysis 

“Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.” This quote by Evgeny Morozov could not better encompass the modern mind. We continue to ever advance technology as a means to ease our struggles in an attempt to “return” to our more basic roots. This is exactly what we have achieved, but not without handing control of our needs to these technologies.

In “White Bear” we truly see how we have attached our basic needs with technology. A sense of safety is not hard to achieve when you are hiding behind a screen; belonging, achieved by acting as one with a group; a sense of accomplishment obtained by recreating and forcing another through the same trials that she sent someone else through; and the final feeling of self-realization as they see her come to “justice” by having stripped Victoria of her needs while gaining their sense of them, all through the feigned control of electronics.

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